Wolf of Badenoch

JOSEPH X

Here's an image I find scary. It's a current image from a web cam situated at the north pole, and instead of the usual snow and ice a large lake has formed from the melting summer ice. Bear in mind also that we are a few months away from the summer minimum, so there is more melting to come...

The immediate impact this and future similar events will have is on the albedo effect - the reflecting of the Sun's rays back into space. This will increase the rate of global warming, the warming of the Arctic Ocean and the release of methane held in permafrost under the ocean's surface - leading to runaway climate change in the space of our lives.